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Master Plan presented to UT community Laboratory space, building renovations included in objectives buildings in the Lake and Terrace Avenues areas.

The Master Plan is also committed to preserve The Hill.

“The Hill is considered by many at the university as a very special place,” Catron said. “We are recommending UT presented the 2011 draft of its Master Plan to the within the Master Plan that The Hill always be treated that community Thursday at the UT Visitors Center. way, so that in the event that buildings need to be replaced, Curtis Catron, consultant and landscape architect for the replacement building be of a character that’s appropriate Bullock, Smith and Partners, presented the to complement Ayres.”

Master Plan preferred concept to attendees The renovation and demolition of before sharing the floor with Chris Cimino, historic buildings, along with the vice chancellor of finance and administraarchitectural style of newly constructtion, to take questions and comments. ed buildings, was brought up during The original UT Master Plan was draftthe comments and questions section. ed in 1994 and updated in 2001. In 2009 “One of the dialogues that has Chancellor Jimmy Cheek started another been a theme is a lot of times, people round of updates by establishing the look at this and they say, ‘Well, it Master Plan Advisory Committee. looks like you’re tearing a lot of stuff One of the driving forces shaping this down. It looks like you’re putting latest draft is UT’s desire to become a top buildings here and there,’ but this is a 25 research university. vision, and it’s a plan,” Catron said.

“This was significant in our planning “Not everything will fit exactly in 40 effort because the university, every year, or 50 years with how it’s being submits its list of projects that it would like designed today.” to fund or have the state fund,” Catron This mindset of staying flexible said. “That priority is set based off of the has led the Master Plan Advisory needs within the academic realm in that Committee to address the static more class lab space, rather than pure acanature of the Master Plan. demic space, will be needed on the front “We are now having some dialogue end of the Master Plan.” about turning this into a living docuAdding more laboratory and research ment,” Cimino said. “It would be our space coincides with UT’s projection of Joy Hill • The Daily Beacon vision not to just wait five to seven significant growth in the number of graduyears but also to create that living Students crowd the Pedestrian Mall between morning classes on Monday, Jan. 24. Making ate students. document for that continuous The presentation was split into near and campus more pedestrian-friendly is just one of a series of renovations outlined by UT’s improvement and input.” master plan. long-term projects. Consistent in both was The current draft of the Master the commitment to make UT more pedesPlan will be submitted for approval trian friendly. This involves pushing parking and main roads Other short-term, state-funded projects on the main cam- to the UT Board of Trustees in June. If approved, the plan to the outside of campus while creating more green space pus include the renovations of Strong Hall, Jessie Harris will be sent to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and bike accessibility inward.

Building, Walters Life Sciences, Early Learning Center and before making its final stop at the State Building “We are really bringing bicycle paths to the forefront by Hoskins Library. Ellington Plant Sciences, located on the Commission. either placing them in walkways or putting them in planned For more information on the UT Master Plan, visit agricultural campus, will be expanded. roadways,” Catron said.

Long-term projects include renovating Estabrook Hall http://masterplan.utk.edu.

The response to this initiative has been positive. and Henson Hall, along with the construction of academic

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“Overall, we are getting great feedback about the pedestrian green space that we are adding to the campus,” Cimino said.

In order to make UT more pedestrian friendly, Andy Holt Avenue, Melrose Avenue, Temple Street and part of Volunteer Avenue will be closed and converted as part of a proposed Grand Mall or another pedestrian green space.

Sudanese forces combat militia Associated Press

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Workers walk along scaffolding outside windows on the third floor of Hodges Library on Monday, April 18.

NOW LEASING FOR FALL 2011!

SUBA, Sudan — At least 115 people have died in violence between government forces and rebel militias in Southern Sudan this week, an official said Sunday, raising concerns of southern instability ahead of the region's independence declaration in July.

Brig. Malaak Ayuen, the head of the Southern Sudan’s Army Information Department, said fighting on Saturday between a group of rebels led by Maj. Gen. Gabriel Tanginye in Jonglei state and southern government forces led to 57 people being killed and scores being injured.

Ayuen said that five days of fighting between government forces and those loyal to another rebel chief, Peter Gatdet, in Unity state which is northwest of Jonglei, led to the deaths of 48 people. He did not give a breakdown of the number of civilians, rebels and the army killed in both incidents.

Since its January independence referendum, Southern Sudan has seen a wave of violence that has killed hundreds.

The south voted nearly unanimously to secede from the north, but there are many issues that still remain unaddressed including the sharing of oil revenues, the status of southerner and northerner minorities living on both sides of the border, and who controls the disputed border region of Abyei, a fertile area near large oil fields.

Southern officials now claim the militia groups they are fighting are being funded by the north to cause instability with the goal of taking over the oil fields in the south.

Before this week’s violence, the U.N. said that at least 800 people had been killed and 94,000 displaced because of violence in Southern Sudan this year.

The fresh clashes between Tanginye’s forces and the army erupted on Saturday morning in Kaldak village north of Jonglei state, where his forces have been assembled for reintegration

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into the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, poised to become Southern Sudan’s regular force in July.

Tanginye said his base was attacked by the southern army because he refused to disarm his men ahead of the reintegration process, an allegation the army has dismissed as a “lie.”

Tanginye was a Khartoum-sponsored warlord, who burned and looted southern villages along the Nile River during the decades-long north-south civil war. He continued serving for the north after a 2005 peace deal ended the war. Although he accepted an amnesty and reintegration package with the southern army late last year, it is now unclear which side Tanginye is fighting for.

The fighting in Unity state erupted on Tuesday and continued until Saturday, with both the army and the rebels claiming control of Mankien village in Mayom County, where the fighting was concentrated.

The army field commander in Mayom, Brig.

Peter Makal said on Saturday that his forces defeated the rebels. He accused them of being funded by the north to invade the area with an aim of taking over Mayom’s oil fields.

However, a spokesman for the rebels, Bol Gatkuoth, claimed they tactfully retreated to regroup for a fresh attack aimed at reaching the state capital, Bentiu, which lies further south.

Nearly 4,000 civilians in the area have fled their devastated villages for safety, Charles Machieng, Mayom’s County Commissioner said on Saturday.

"The whole town was burnt down. There was no single structure remaining because people are using houses made from grass," Machieng said. "There is still fear in the entire community because they heard heavy artillery fire. They have seen heavy fighting."

The state authorities responded by ordering the northern and foreign employees of the oil companies working in the state to evacuate.

Southern Sudan’s referendum was part of a 2005 peace deal, ending a two-decade civil war that cost some two million lives.

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Monday, April 25, 2011

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Ayres Hall warmly lit by a sunset on Wednesday, Nov. 10. The iconic building, which was constructed in 1921, closes out it’s first semester of classes after being closed for three years to take care of $23 million in renovations.

1983: Andropov writes to U.S. student On this day in 1983, the Soviet Union releases a letter that Russian leader Yuri Andropov wrote to Samantha Smith, an American fifth-grader from Manchester, Maine, inviting her to visit his country. Andropov's letter came in response to a note Smith had sent him in Dec. 1982, asking if the Soviets were planning to start a nuclear war. At the time, the United States and Soviet Union were Cold War enemies.

President Ronald Reagan, a passionate anti-communist, had dubbed the Soviet Union the "evil empire" and called for massive increases in U.S. defense spending to meet the perceived Soviet threat. In his public relations duel with Reagan, known as the "Great Communicator," Andropov, who had succeeded longtime Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1982, assumed a folksy, almost grandfatherly approach that was incongruous with the negative image most Americans had of the Soviets.

Andropov's letter said that Russian people wanted to "live in peace, to trade and cooperate with all our neighbors on the globe, no matter how close or far away they

are, and, certainly, with such a great country as the United States of America." In response to Smith's question about whether the Soviet Union wished to prevent nuclear war, Andropov declared, "Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are endeavoring and doing everything so that there will be no war between our two countries, so that there will be no war at all on earth." Andropov also complimented Smith, comparing her to the spunky character Becky Thatcher from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

by Mark Twain.

Smith, born June 29, 1972, accepted Andropov's invitation and flew to the Soviet Union with her parents for a visit. Afterward, she became an international celebrity and peace ambassador, making speeches, writing a book and even landing a role on an American television series. In February 1984, Yuri Andropov died from kidney failure and was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko. The following year, in Aug. 1985, Samantha Smith died tragically in a plane crash at age 13.

—This Day in History is courtesy of history.com.

Monday, April 25, 2011

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UT Organic Crops Field Tour Features Tips for Commercial Growers and Home Gardeners The University of Tennessee East Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center will present its third annual Organic Crops Field Tour on Thursday. A trade show will open at 7:30 a.m., and tours and talks will begin at 8:30.

The event should be of interest to home gardeners as well as commercial growers interested in the production of organically grown fruits and vegetables. The 90-acre Organic Crops Unit is dedicated to organic crop research, and the field day will highlight current research projects and discuss organic crop production techniques and recommendations.

Topics to be presented by UT experts include the use of high tunnels, alternatives to soil fumigants and rainwater collection; soil fertility, weed management and forage production; and fruits/nuts, heirloom tomatoes, bees and wildflowers.

Pre-registration is just $10 per person and is strongly encouraged. The day’s activities will include a lunch and feature presentation by Chef John Antun, director of the UT Culinary Institute. Following lunch, visitors may participate in either a walking tour of the facility or an equipment demonstration, weather permitting. Participants will also receive a proceedings booklet. On-site registration the morning of the program will be $15 per person.

To register, please visit this website: http://organics.tennessee.edu/FieldTour.html.

Alternatively, call the East Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center at 865-974-7201 by Monday. If you need to request an accommodation for accessibility, please contact us at 865-9747161.

UT AgResearch, in cooperation with UT Extension and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, launched the organic agriculture initiative to involve more Tennessee farmers in organic production for the purpose of increasing farm income. For additional information, visit the Web site: http://organics.tennessee.edu/ The East Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center is one of 10 outdoor laboratories operated by UT AgResearch, a division of the UT Institute of Agriculture. In addition to its agriculTara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon tural research programs, the Institute of Agriculture also provides instruction and public service through the UT College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, the UT College of Monica Sprehe, senior in business administration, practices breakdancing outside Veterinary Medicine and UT Extension offices in every county in the state. of the Art and Architecture building on Thursday, April 21.

Mark Hairr Named New UT Parking and Transit Services Director Mark Hairr, program director for the Center for Energy, Transportation and the Environment at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has been named the new director of Parking and Transit Services for UT. Hairr will start on May 1.

Prior to working at UT Chattanooga, Hairr was director of development and then general manager of Knoxville Area Transit, the city's public transportation system.

"We're pleased that Mark has agreed to come back to Knoxville and take this critical leadership position at UT," said Jeff Maples, senior associate vice chancellor for finance and administration. "His years of experience at KAT and at UTC make him the ideal choice for the job."

Hairr takes over for Mary Lynn Holloway, who retired this year after more than 30 years of service to UT. During his time at UT-Chattanooga, Hairr authored a comprehensive transit plan for the UTC campus. He also managed the campus's role in the deployment of a dynamic message sign system for campus bus stops with the city of Chattanooga's public transportation system and led the planning effort for a new parking and transportation center at UTC. While at KAT, Hairr worked closely with UT Parking and Transit Services on providing shuttle services during the academic year and for home football games in the fall. In addition, he was instrumental in the planning and implementation of "The T," the current campus transit system.

UT Parking and Transit Services manages parking for students, faculty, staff and visitors in more than 20 surface lots and parking garages around campus. The office also manages public transit in support of academic, athletic and public service programs on the Knoxville and agricultural campuses.

For more information, visit http://web.utk.edu/~pso/.

Workshop for Tennessee Nursery Producers on Pesticide Application Techniques The nursery business in Tennessee generates more than $177 million in sales each year — making the Volunteer State one of the top producers of ornamental plants in the nation. There are more than 800 nurseries in the state, mostly concentrated in the rolling hills about halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga.

To assist the many producers in this area, UT Extension is offering an Airblast Sprayer Workshop for nursery owners and employees.

The Airblast Sprayer Workshop will be May 4 at the ProGro Nursery in McMinnville. The event starts at 8 a.m., and the cost is $15 per participant if registered before Saturday.

The cost will be $25 after that.

The event offers instruction in correctly adjusting sprayers for optimal coverage and pest control.

Pesticide Points will be offered: two points for categories C1, C2, C3, C10 and C12.

Other points of instruction include how tractor speed and row spacing impacts pesticide application and coverage. Other workshop speakers include experts from Ohio State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

UT Extension operates in each of Tennessee’s 95 counties as the off-campus division of the UT Institute of Agriculture.

An educational and outreach organization funded by federal, state and local governments, UT Extension, in cooperation with Tennessee State University, brings research-based information about agriculture, family and consumer sciences and youth and community development to the people of Tennessee where they live and work.

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Monday, April 25, 2011

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Letter Editor to the

Task force report turns Baker Center into dry think tank As an alumnus of the University of Tennessee who was closely involved with the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy, I write you today to express my support for the students mentioned in Thursday's article "Students question task force report." In my opinion, the vision for the Baker Center articulated in the report eliminates the center’s important focus on student engagement and will replace that focus with yet another unnecessary, uninteresting and uninspiring think tank. Given that no student sat on the task force, nor were any students consulted in preparing the report — an oversight which, standing alone, should be sufficient grounds on which to dismiss task force’s conclusions — this result is unsurprising. There are two conclusions, in particular, however, which demonstrate the task force’s unwillingness to consider student interests.

First, and perhaps most shockingly, the report concludes that the Baker Journal of Applied Public Policy "does not reflect well on the Baker Center and should be discontinued after issues in progress are published." It’s obvious why this conclusion misses the point — the journal is not and was never intended to be a premier scholarly journal dedicated to cutting-edge research on issues of immediate importance. Instead, the student-run journal was an opportunity for undergraduates like me to learn about the academic process. Perhaps our little student-run journal did not meet the lofty academic expectations of the task force — and perhaps this is just one example of a larger issue endemic to the report — but I know that with minimal resources, a student-run, digitally published journal can continue to be a valuable academic experience for those that are following in my footsteps.

Additionally the report conceptualizes of the Baker Scholars Program as a small, rigorous, research-oriented track for five to 10 students per year. While I applaud the initiative to make the Baker Scholars Program more rigorous, I’m afraid that the report once again abandons what makes the Baker Scholars Program unique, in favor of a lofty idea of academic elitism.

The Baker Scholars Program, to me, was not just an opportunity to write another paper under the direction of a faculty member, but instead it was a community of similarly minded students interested in the same things as I was. By shrinking the program and eliminating the staff position dedicated to building that community, I’m afraid that there will be little left to the program. To be perfectly frank, it is sometimes difficult to find these kinds of communities on campus, and I’m not sure that replacing a community with a research project will do much for students who have opportunities for research and writing elsewhere.

During my four years at UT, the Baker Center was more than just another dry think tank in an obscure building that no student had ever heard of. I fear, however, that this is the inescapable result of the vision articulated by the task force. I understand that the university is facing real budget issues and to the extent that changes at the Baker Center are necessary because of this fiscal reality, I am sympathetic. But to me, the report focused less on financial reality and more on a substantive vision for what the task force believed the Baker Center should be — a vision with which I could not be more strongly in disagreement. I applaud the efforts of the current students to preserve the Baker Center’s original mission and preserve it as a resource for generations of students to come.

Michael Lumley, University of Tennessee ‘09 Harvard Law School ‘12 ALEX CLINE • Scrambled Eggs

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Truth inextricably linked to power Pol itics o f Tr u t h by

Justin Crisp It's our last week together; sounds like as good a time as any to explain the title of my column, eh?

“The Politics of Truth” is a term used by philosopher and historian Michel Foucault to describe his investigation of how declarations of “truth” are inextricably tied up in and shaped by political agendas and strategies. I don't affirm this to be true (now there's a conundrum to wrap your mind around — but read on), in order to say truth doesn't exist. I believe far too much in truth to make such a statement. No, I affirm it to recognize that what we consider to be a “true statement” is tied up in appeals to authority, in other words, to the exercise of power.

Let me illustrate with ... myself. You're reading this column, right? Right. You, the reader, can yell at it, scream at it, frame it, share it, “like” it on Facebook, tweet it, or blog it. Heck, you can even respond to it by writing a letter to the editor and, thus, get your own response printed in the very same medium through which you encountered this column. But I am still the writer. I get to write something once a week that gets published in this particular student newspaper; you probably don't. And in any event, it's my column, not yours. That's power.

I'm trying to position myself as some sort of knowledgeable source on things political, religious and theoretical, so I make appeals to authority. That is to say, I cite people, like Foucault. Hopefully you'll assume that I've read enough of Foucault, who's arguably the most cited author in the humanities, to understand what he has to say. And if you're impressed with my name-dropping, perhaps you'll be sufficiently convinced of my argument's truth.

That's power.

I have a political chip on my shoulder as a firstgeneration college student, the son of a small business owner, someone who spent much of his childhood in rural East Tennessee, a convert to a socially

oriented form of American Protestantism and a future seminarian. I think people ought to value higher education; ought to pay attention to situations of violent inequality in our nation and world; ought not look down on those who aren't so highly educated but, rather, seek to reach out to them; ought to pay attention to how religion and politics are inseparable; and ought not disqualify theological claims (of any religious stripe) as valid forms of cultural expression.

Let me make this even clearer: I think education's important. Christianity makes me cry, sometimes because I'm in awe of its beauty and sometimes because I'm in dismay at how people wield it to hurt others). And I think that God is on the side of the poor and the oppressed and that I ought to be able to say so in public without censoring myself. (I + I = We, right? You be you. I'll be me. We’ll be “we” together.) That's power.

That's not to say everything's already determined or that I'm just using whatever evidence I can find in five minutes on Google to justify some political agenda that's already decided. No, truth transforms people. It's transformed me. I'm a much different person now than I was four years ago when I came to this university as a freshman. I wasn't always aware of the things I listed above. Four years ago, I wouldn't have written those things as I've wrote them just now.

No, I read, I wrote, I talked, I (most importantly) listened, and I tried to put this reading, writing, talking, and listening into action. Truth has effects of power. What you believe matters. And whether we were discussing Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels, the meaning of valentines, the plight of the American underclass, or the Rob Bell controversy, we were examining the politics of truth.

So question everything, because everyone has an agenda, including me. Power isn't inherently bad, but it's always dangerous. Use yours for good rather than evil.

That's what I've tried to do with this column, in any event. And if nothing else, I hope to have persuaded you that this is what your education is supposed to be about. You are a college student. So I beg you: use this incredible privilege for good. If we don't create a more just society, who will?

— Justin Crisp is a senior in English and religious studies. He can be reached at jcrisp1@utk.edu.

Minimalism crucial aid to fulfilling life App al achian O u t lo o k by

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Socrates once said, “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”

Need I say more?

Since we were young, we have been assaulted with the notion that “in seeking more,” we can make more of our lives. But just how true is this?

It’s the norm in our society that to possess more things, to do things more quickly, to spend more money — bluntly, to have and do more — is what is required of a quality life.

I think it’s well worth our time to reassess these basics.

The goal: to live one’s life to the fullest—a life filled with meaning and happiness.

The problem: we are impeded by the norm that having and doing more means living life to the fullest.

The solution: strip our lives down to that which really matters. Shed the waste and clutter — the extra things we buy and extraneous things we do — and save only what is required for happiness and meaning.

This solution to the problem of “seeking more” is called minimalism. It’s a way of life that says you’ll find true quality in focusing only on the things that matter.

Contrary to popular belief, minimalism does not advocate that you get rid of absolutely everything.

Minimalism doesn’t have to mean living like a monk. “What is necessary” is a subjective notion.

Minimalism, at its core, says that less is more — that you’ll be closest to fulfillment if you shed all but what is actually required for your happiness.

However, minimalism requires that you be honest with yourself in determining what is actually required for your fulfillment. Do we really need all the things we have? Wouldn’t we be happier if we just focused on the things that truly have meaning? Isn’t that the point of all this?

The big question is this: if we can make the most of our lives with fewer things rather than with more things, why not choose the former? If we value true efficiency, minimalism is the answer to many of our problems. It is the answer because in simplifying our lives, minimalism avoids many tribulations we traditionally face.

We have become so obsessed with the notion of efficiency that we have left out half of the equation — quality. Our strive for quantity has become such the norm that it has put most of our minds in a prison.

While we may be able to conceptualize the idea of “enjoying less,” it is as some far-off, undesirable thing. Our minds are in such a rut that it is nearly impossible for most of us to muster the will to want less. Changing one’s mindset on any issue is difficult, but it seems even harder to change one’s mindset from “seeking more” to “enjoy(ing) less.”

While acknowledging this, it is still possible to adopt minimalism in our modern world. It is a road to making the absolute most of your life. Try it out for a week, and I promise you’ll find the significance in simplifying things. If meaning is what you value, then minimalism can help you get there.

The aim of my column this entire semester has been to promote a way of living that “suck(s) out all the marrow of life.” In the words of Thoreau, “living is so dear,” if we hope to make the most of our lives we must “live deliberatively” and have intention with everything we do.

Though my column may have strayed once or twice (or more) from this lofty idea of “liv(ing) deliberately,” I couldn’t let the value of minimalism go unsaid.

If the challenge is making the most of our lives, then I think minimalism is an appealing solution.

I respect and support one’s freedom to go about life in whatever manner he or she so desires. My goal is not to ridicule those who may have more robust or affluent lifestyles — those who have no desire for reducing waste in their lives or who see no value in seeking less. Rather, my aim is to share advice that I think can assist one in living in a way that brings more meaning and happiness, if one so desires.

— Eric Dixon is a sophomore in philosophy and global studies. He can be reached at edixon4@utk.edu.

Monday, April 25, 2011

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Homeless impacted by sidewalk ‘sit-lie’ law The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — On a street corner in the iconic HaightAshbury neighborhood, traveling troubadours "Stinkin" Pete Irving and his wife Charlie — freshly arrived from Seattle — squatted on the sidewalk and began strumming a guitar and bending a steel saw for eerie accompaniment. And for spare change.

Warned that they were risking possible police citations and arrest, Pete Irving responded defiantly.

"This is as much of a job as I have," he said. "I'll take my chances."

Just about then a police cruiser appeared, and an officer pointed at the couple and told them in no uncertain terms to move on.

Move on they did, at least for the time being.

A year after a controversial ordinance prohibiting sitting or lying on San Francisco sidewalks was first proposed, police are now enforcing the new law along the city's most famous thoroughfares.

Yet, vigorous squabbling continues between supporters who claim the "sit-lie" law is working and opponents who argue it unfairly targets the homeless, day laborers and mentally ill.

Opponents went so far as to build wooden benches and placing them on corners — so that sidewalk squatters could sit — created a Facebook page to register their protests.

According to the most recent official statistics available, between March 26 and April 1, police across the city handed out eight citations and issued 75 warnings. They also responded to 16 calls complaining about violators who were gone when officers arrived.

Last fall, San Francisco voters approved Measure L, which prohibits sitting or lying on sidewalks between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m.

But police delayed enforcing the law until last month to ensure

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Improvement Association, said he's noticed significant changes in his neighborhood since the law has been enforced. He recently saw officers call an ambulance for an intoxicated man instead of issuing him a citation for sitting on a curb.

Loewenberg believes there will be an adjustment period, noting he still sees large groups of young transients congregating on certain corners like Haight Street and Masonic Avenue.

"Police have to be vigilant, and when that doesn't occur, it's going to take folks like me to kindly remind them," Loewenberg said. "That's why there's a citywide law."

Bruce Wolfe, vice president of the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council, said the sit-lie law simply won't work. He still believes the ordinance is unconstitutional.

"It seems a little bit overextended, overreaching. I just find to make everybody have to be on their two feet moving and walking seems very odd for a city to demand," Wolfe said. "That it would have this huge drastic effect on changing the social landscape of the city, I just don't see it.

"The voters had the wool pulled over their eyes on this one."

Recent arrivals Joe Lust, 20, of Austin, Texas, Liz Mallion, 22, from Hawaii, and Steven Grossman, 21, of Fort Collins, Colo., said they have quickly learned the nuances of the "sit-lie" law.

That includes watching for police and standing up on a second's notice.

On Wednesday, they debated whether to plop down on a corner to play music or join the passing throngs heading to celebrate "4-20," the unofficial marijuana holiday, at Hippie Hill in nearby Golden Gate Park.

"This is public space," Lust said. "There's a new law, but I still don't understand it. Why can't we sit here?"

As police cars and vans passed by, two vehicles slowed down, with officers taking a look. The trio decided to amble on toward the park.

officers were properly trained.

The protocol says that officers will issue a written warning before citing anyone. Fines for repeat offenders range from $50 to $500 and possibly jail time.

"The emphasis is not to cite but to inform and offer services," said Sgt. Mike Andraychak, a police spokesman.

The initiative was proposed by former police chief and now District Attorney George Gascon after mounting concerns about those who clog sidewalks or otherwise threaten or intimidate pedestrians. He eventually got former Mayor Gavin Newsom on board.

Merchants, especially in the once hippie-crazed HaightAshbury neighborhood, led the charge, complaining about overbearing young transients blocking patrons with aggressively panhandling, sometimes with big dogs at their sides.

Judah Collins, co-manager of a music store, said he typically told stragglers about five times a day to stop hanging out by his storefront. Now, it's down to a couple of times or so, he said.

"I see both sides of the coin," said Collins about the law. "It must be working and intimidating a lot of people."

Alan Bendit, a fellow co-manager, has a different take.

"The cops are selectively choosing who to ticket," Bendit said.

"I'm not so convinced."

Capt. Denis O'Leary, whose station patrols the area, said there has been vigorous enforcement since late last month. This month alone, his officers have issued at least one "sit-lie" citation a day.

"Quite frankly, I didn't know what to expect," O'Leary said.

"I'm finding that when I walk that beat, the folks getting cited are those who have other issues. They either drink too much, use too much drugs or have a mental illness.

"I'd rather have my officers focused on more serious crimes."

But, he said, "It is a valid law that has to be enforced. We can't ignore it no more than if someone ran a stop sign or a red light."

Ted Loewenberg, president of the Haight-Ashbury

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NEWS

Monday, April 25, 2011

Gulf suffers in lack of BP funding The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Scientists say it is taking far too long to dole out millions of dollars in BP funds for badly needed Gulf oil spill research, and it could be too late to assess the crude's impact on pelicans, shrimp and other species by the time studies begin.

The spring nesting and spawning season is a crucial time to get out and sample the reproduction rates, behavior and abundance of species, all factors that could be altered by last year’s massive spill. Yet no money has been made available for this year, and it could take months to determine which projects will be funded.

"It’s like a murder scene," said Dana Wetzel, an ecotoxicologist at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida. "You have to pick up the evidence now."

BP PLC had pledged $500 million — $50 million a year over 10 years — to help scientists study the spill’s impact and forge a better understanding of how to deal with future spills. The first $50 million was handed out in May 2010 to four Gulf-based research institutes and to the National Institutes of Health.

Rita Colwell, a University of Maryland scientist who chairs the board overseeing the money, said the protocol for distributing the remaining $450 million would be announced Monday at the National Press Club Washington. After that, scientists will be allowed to submit proposals, but it could take months for research to be chosen.

Michael Carron, a Mississippi marine scientist selected to head the BP-funded post-spill research project, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, doubted money would be available before June. He acknowledged not being able to study the spring spawning in full bloom would be a problem.

"This will be the first good glimpse of what happened to larvae, the first class" of species born during and after the spill, he said.

With the BP funds so slow to get out the door, scientists are trying to get funding from federal grants and other sources. And it’s possible the BP money will be handed out on an expedited basis, Carron said.

From the outset, the $500 million has been fraught with problems and questions over how the money would be distributed and how much scientists would be influenced by BP. The result has been paralysis.

It took until last month for BP and the Gulf of Mexico Alliance, a nonprofit headed by Gulf Coast governors, to finally agree on how to

spend the rest of the $450 million. Under the agreement, BP pledged that research would be independent of the oil giant and the Gulf alliance and that scientists could publish their results without BP approval.

Still, BP will exert some control. For example, the funds will be overseen by a BP-hired contractor, and the oil giant has appointed half of the members on a 20-member board that will decide what research to do.

BP declined to comment and referred questions to the Gulf research initiative.

Larry McKinney, the director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, said the science board overseeing the money was solid and unlikely to be heavily influenced by BP. Scientists who take the BP money will have to credit the oil giant for funding the research, and BP may be able to obtain patents for inventions derived from the research.

McKinney said those requirements were standard.

The delay in BP funds has rankled scientists. There was a dearth of scientific investigation to understand the effects of the massive 1979 Ixtoc spill in the Gulf’s Bay of Campeche, scientists said, and there are fears the same could happen in the wake of BP’s spill.

"The science was abysmal to start with," George Crozier, the head of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, said about the effect of oil spills in the Gulf. "But, golly, the questions have become bigger and more important."

And scientists don’t have many other places to turn for research dollars.

While a lot of sampling and data collection is being done by BP and the federal government in the natural resource damage assessment, the legal battle over damage to the ecosystem also known as NRDA, scientists say that work is hardly cutting-edge and may not pick up the subtlest of changes in reproduction, DNA and other important factors.

"NRDA is not designed to advance science; George Richardson • The Daily Beacon it is designed to establish the damage done," Crozier said. "It is a legal-driven process."

Students take a break between classes to chat inside of the Art and Architecture NRDA also focuses on the commercially Building on Monday, Sept. 13. important and top species — not the worms, shorebirds, jellyfish, bait fish and tiny crustaceans that make up the bottom of the food web.

"There are areas of research we don’t have Lt. Robert McCullough, a spokesman for the The Associated Press a handle on," Wetzel said. "We’re in the waitBaltimore County police, told The Associated ing room. We still don’t know what’s hapPress on Saturday evening that police are workpened, and we’re waiting for someone to step ROSEDALE, Md. — A transgender woman, ing with the state’s attorney’s office to deterup and say this is important to find out.” whose brutal attack at a McDonald's restaurant mine whether other charges should be brought in Maryland was captured on video that later and whether anyone else should face charges. went viral, said Saturday she was the victim of "I’m sure our investigators will be doing a hate crime. additional follow-up, speaking with the victim Twenty-two-year-old Chrissy Lee Polis told in this case," McCullough said.

The Baltimore Sun that since the attack last Asked about Polis’ allegation that she was a Monday, "I’m just afraid to go outside now hate crime victim, McCullough said investigabecause of stuff like this." tors would certainly look into such claims.

The video posted online shows a woman "Generally when it comes to cases that being attacked and apparently having a seizure. involve racial, religious, ethnic or sexual orienBaltimore County police say a 14-year-old girl tation from an investigative standpoint, we has been charged as a juvenile and an 18-yearapproach the case from the perspective of the old woman faces an assault charge in the case. victim," he said.

Polis told the newspaper that after she used Earlier Saturday, the McDonald’s franchise the restroom, "They said, ‘That’s a dude. That’s owner said he was reviewing the response of a dude and she’s in the female bathroom.’" his employees.

Polis said she was confronted by a girl who Franchise owner Mitchell McPherson said in spat in her face and accused Polis of talking to a statement that he was shocked by the beating "my man." Polis said another girl then also spat inside the Rosedale restaurant. The company on her face, and that they then beat and kicked also condemned the beating. McPherson said her, pulled her by the hair and tore off her earthe employee who took the video and appeared rings. to alert the assailants that police were on the "They really hurt me really bad," Polis said way "is no longer employed with my organizain a videotaped interview that was posted on tion." Other workers may also be disciplined. the newspaper’s website.

Equality Maryland has called for the attack All the while, she said, a McDonald’s employto be investigated as a hate crime, according to ee recorded the attack on his cell phone, even The Sun, and Polis’ twin brother said it’s though she told him to stop. She said her painful to watch his sister face such abuse. injuries would certainly have been worse had an "My sister has gotten this her entire life," older female customer not assisted her.

Matty Polis said. "Being the way she is, she’s "They just seemed like they wanted to pick always had a hard time.” a fight that night," Polis said.

McDonald’s attack caught on video

Monday, April 25, 2011

ENTERTAINMENT

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Christian music doles out awards ‘Man’ offers expert scenery, lighting Dove Awards features presenter football stars Tebow, Jennings "I hope Jesus comes soon, because I don’t think I can stand too much longer in ATLANTA — Francesca Battistelli con- this dress," she quipped, as the crowd in tinues her strong surge as Christian attendance went into laughter.

Host Sherri Shepherd of ABC’s "The music's biggest star.

Battistelli won artist of the year at the View" followed Pierce’s short comedy act 42nd annual Dove Awards held in Atlanta and demanded attendees to repeatedly for the first time Wednesday night. She chant, "I love Jesus, I love Jesus."

Later in the show, Hall, Third Day, and also went home with two more awards — Steven Curtis Chapman — who has won best female vocalist and pop-contemporary more Dove Awards with 56 than any other recorded song. artist — performed together.

Battistelli, 25, has surged recently with Legendary singer Sandi Patty, who her second major label album, "Hundred showed up to the awards 75 pounds lighter, More Years," which reached No. 1 on was honored for her lifetime achievements.

Billboard’s Top S e v e r a l C h r i s t i a n s i n g e r s , Albums chart i n c luding last month.

Battistelli, "I’m on cloud Natalie Grant, nine right now," Audrey Assad, said Battistelli Kerri Robert, after the awards Janet Paschal, show, which airs Brit Nicole Sunday on GMC, and Laura formerly known Story, each as the Gospel gave a rendiMusic Channel. tion of Patty’s "I’m standing past hit songs. here ... speechPatty then less. This is joined the totally humseven singers bling." and sang with The awards them before show for gospel she presented and Christian Battistelli music left with her secNashville, Tenn., ond-straight for the first time female artist in its history. of the year Organizers award. expected the Patty said new production – Tim Tebow, Denver Broncos quarterback, she feels comin Atlanta to be on introducing Third Day fortable "passjust as successing on the ful. torch" to the The show’s other female new location singers, saying she was impressed with seemed to fit.

"I like having it in Nashville too, but Battistelli’s poise.

"She has the least amount of lines than we’re definitely cool to have it right here in anyone else," Patty said. "But she didn’t Atlanta," said Casting Crowns’ frontman gripe or get mad. She just kept being graMark Hall. "There’s a lot going on here." cious.

I told her to never lose that."

Other winners included Chris August, Actress Tamala Mann, who is known for who was new artist of the year, best male her role as Cora in Tyler Perry’s plays, vocalist and earned another award for popmovies and TV show "Meet the Browns," contemporary album. Singer Jason Crabb won in the traditional gospel album of the and the group Point of Grace also joined year category over Shirley Caesar. She Battistelli in claiming three Doves apiece.

Crabb won song of the year for his screamed, then eagerly pranced down the heartfelt single "Sometimes I Cry." He also aisle to accept her first Dove Award with won inspirational recorded song and tradi- her husband, David Mann, who also cotional gospel recorded song. His father stars on Perry’s shows.

"This is amazing," she said. "This is a Gerald Crabb won songwriter of the year.

"Who knew both of us would’ve come gift that God has stirred up in me. My husaway with an award," Gerald Crabb said. band has stood beside me and pushed me in every way."

"This was a big night for us."

Presenters included Denver Broncos Point of Grace took home country album of the year and Christmas album of the quarterback Tim Tebow; Super Bowl winyear and country recorded song of the year. ner and Green Bay Packers wideout Greg The all-female trio comprised of Shelley Jennings; singer Ruben Studdard; and Breen, Denise Jones, and Leigh Cappillino actress Kim Fields.

Tebow, who often talks about his took the stage with legendary country Christian beliefs, said it was a pleasure to singer Kenny Rogers to perform his newest introduce Third Day to highlight the inspirational country melody, "The Rock of group’s adoption effort. The former Your Love."

Heisman Trophy winner said he found "It was great to be on stage with them," inspiration in many of the show’s acts.

Rogers said. "I just met them this morning.

"To just interact with them was great," How good are they? It was great to have he said. "To meet them and spend time them as a support system for me."

The show opened with Chris Tomlin with them was great. I’ve listened to them standing in a black leather jacket and blue for years. This was really special for me to jeans as he performed his hit single "Our see what they’re about. When you get to God" before Christian comedian Chonda know them as people, it’s truly meaningful.”

Pierce took the stage.

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production’s acting is that its fluency always kept great pace under the demands Staff Writer of the singing and dancing, but it can be How can the very worst of intentions argued that the necessary intensity and bring out the best in everyone? The context was lacking at key moments. The answer, it would seem, has something to only difference between fast-talking conartist Harold Hill (played by David do with music.

This is a central question of Clarence Kortemeier) and an actual salesman is Brown Theater’s latest production, “The that he’s asserting fake credentials in the Music Man.” Those not having had the field of expertise (music) that he’s pleasure of seeing “The Music Man” attempting to profit on. His game is that before know the general tone of the play he has to mobilize an entire town behind should be light-hearted and funny because his insane idea of creating huge demand it’s about a traveling con-artist who, due for a town kids’ band, get the parents to to general apathy or a tendency for emo- invest and then skip town. Yet, however malleable the simple townsfolk are, it still tional overinvestrequires a lot ment, Music Man of on-stage reassures both energy to fears with the maintain, if instant promise not believabiliof song, dance ty, then at and inherently least an humorous situao b s e r v a b le tion. precedent for Stage operathe magnitude tion was run with of Harold’s iniexpert, creative tial narcisefficiency, and sism, characthe setting is surter knowledge prisingly immerthat must be sive. Set in and fully felt if the around a small audience is to town in early perceive the 20th century m e a n i n g Iowa, the context behind his, his is communicated love interest’s, with four painted and the rest of backdrops: field, the town’s country road and • Photo courtesy of Clarence Brown Theatre gradual transMain Street of an early 1900s mid- David Kortemeier and Katy Wolfe Zahn pose in a formation. As Western town promotional shot for “The Music Man,” which it is, Harold is likable that rotate easily debuted last week at the Clarence Brown too into focus when Theatre. The show is scheduled to run through and moderate, bad catalysts needed.

When Sunday, May 15. for character changing to an outside scene, awesome lighting work development.

The numbers in “The Music Man” are ensures that the fixed on-stage catwalk is never intrusive. Every costume reassures acted, sung and danced superbly — more than worth seeing on their own — but the the eye with suburban ‘30s authenticity.

With the amount of people normally on more complex elements of “The Music stage at one time, scene changes were Man,” ideally able to blend with the lightastonishingly seamless, a spotlight on heartedness and spectacle, are a bit left someone always keeping the action and behind and under-emphasized.

“The Music Man” runs through May 15 story going, even while the whole cast is at the Clarence Brown Theatre. making a big transition in the darkness.

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UT assistant coach passes away UT men’s tennis falls to Gators Staff Reports Assistant Tennessee swimming coach Joe Hendee died at his Knoxville home Sunday morning after nearly a year-long battle with brain cancer. He was 50.

Hendee was a tireless supporter and advocate for the UT aquatics program since he arrived as a student assistant coach for legendary head man Ray Bussard in 1978. Hired as Tennessee's first full-time paid assistant coach, Hendee was the heart of Tennessee swimming for more than 30 years.

Under his careful eye, the Big Orange earned a 177-32 (.847) dual-meet record, three SEC crowns and a national title. Tennessee has produced 92 individual SEC champions, 15 individual NCAA champions, three gold medalists and more than 100 All-America selections during Hendee's tenure on The Hill.

When not coaching the Vols, Hendee dutifully served the U.S. as an international coach and mentor. Shortly after joining Bussard's staff, Hendee worked as the facilities coordinator for the 1982 USSR-USA dual-meet held in UT's Student Aquatic Center. He also assisted Coach Bussard during his stint as a 1984 U.S.

Olympic coach. In 1986, Hendee served USA Swimming as a coach at the Elite Training Camp in Chapel Hill, N.C. He also coached at the 1989 and 1993 U.S. Olympic Festivals and worked as a facilities coordinator at UT's Student Aquatic Center prior to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. At the same time, Hendee was preparing UT's Jeremy Linn and Ricky Busquets for the Olympiad.

Hendee's coaching abilities have been called upon before, as he has served three times on the staff at the U.S. Junior Nationals.

He has also traveled to Athens for the 2000 Short Course World Championships and Barcelona for the 2003 Long Course World Championships.

Because of his dedication and service to UT, Hendee was inducted into the Tennessee Swimming Hall of Fame in 2003. The Hall of Fame's motto, "Honoring those who have served in true Volunteer Tradition," embodies Hendee's career perfectly.

Hendee graduated from Chattanooga's Notre Dame High School in 1979 before earning his degree from Tennessee in 1983. He spent 33 years at UT, making him the longesttenured assistant coach in the history of men’s athletics at Tennessee.

Funeral arrangements are forthcoming.

Grizzlies get long-awaited playoff win Colin Skinner Asst. Sports Editor Ask any Memphian about the overall success of the Memphis Grizzlies since the franchise began playing in Pyramid 10 years ago, and you’d probably hear something to the effect of, “They’ve been alright, not great, not bad.

They’re finally hitting their stride.”

Ask the same question before this season, and you’d probably get a laugh before an explanation.

Saturday night, the Memphis Grizzlies did something they hadn’t done in franchise history: win a playoff game at home. Now 1-7 all-time at home in the postseason, the win symbolizes new hope and sustained energy for a city that has never been able to fully embrace NBA fandom.

That is, until now.

“You felt the buzz as soon as you came into the building,” said Memphis forward Zach Randolph, referring to the Grizzlies’ home arena at FedEx Forum. The venue welcomed a sell-out crowd of 18,119 fans Saturday night which spilt out onto the crowded streets of downtown Memphis and Beale Street after a 91-88 victory over the Spurs in Game 3 of their first-round series.

“I got shivers,” said Grizzlies guard Mike Conley. “The hair stood up on the back of my neck.”

Conley, the Memphis field general and ball logistics specialist since arriving to the Bluff City out of college in 2007, scored 14 points and dished eight assists in the win as the No. 8 seed Grizzlies took an astonishing 2-1 lead in the bestof-seven series over the No. 1-seeded San Antonio Spurs.

In what was described after the game by Memphis forward Shane Battier as a “broken play,” Battier found Randolph outside the arc

late in the fourth quarter, guarded by Spurs center Tim Duncan. Not exactly in his repertoire of shots, Randolph shot up a rainbow three-pointer that landed gracefully through the hoop, all-thewhile 18,000-plus fans exhaling from the stands.

Even Grizzlies owner Mike Heisley admitted to personally objecting to the wild shot taken late with the game on the line, before shouting, “YES!” in approval.

After the game, cameras followed Randolph on the court as he performed his self-entitled “win-win” dance to DJ Khaled’s – and appropriately titled as well — “All I Do Is Win.” Fans stayed in their seats to enjoy the entertainment on the court, as well as soak in all that they has missed out on in the 10 seasons and countless missed opportunities of winning a playoff game at home.

What has been most special for Grizzlies’ faithful and the city in general is knowing they won’t have to endure another anticlimactic postseason sweep this time. The Grizzlies were swept in the playoffs for three consecutive years (2004-2006), these being the only years the Memphis team had played past the regular season until 2011.

Since Shane Battier’s instant classic, go-ahead three-pointer with 23.9 seconds remaining in Game 1, the viral city-wide thought of “sweep” has been swept away from the minds of Grizzlies fans and Memphians alike. Instead, the players decided to replace this ill-fated mantra with a catchy motto of their own: “Let’s Make History.”

And so far, they have. The Memphis Grizzlies have taken the lead in a playoff series, have won a playoff game at home as before mentioned, and won in the playoffs, all firsts for the franchise.

For a team that was becoming accustomed to new coaches, new annual stars and playoff letdowns in its short but engaging 10-year history, it’s a step in the right direction.

That’s something to be proud of, Memphians.

— Colin Skinner is a junior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at cskinne3@utk.edu.

Gainesville, and the guys have the experience: we know what’s coming. We knew how to hanStaff Reports dle it. We just didn’t."

Florida tied the score at 1-1 when Spencer Aside from winning the doubles point and Newman defeated Edward Jones 6-4, 6-2 on Rhyne Williams' performance on court two, not court six. The Gators added two more points much went right for the Tennessee Volunteers when Bob van Overbeek beat Conkic 6-2, 6-4, on Saturday. and Smith had his five-match winning streak The secondsnapped by ranked Vols' hopes eighth-ranked of consecutive SEC Alexandre Championships Lacroix on court titles practically 1 by a 6-4, 6-3 ended once singles score. play began, falling 4From there, 2 to host Florida in the Vols were facthe semifinals at the ing a 3-1 deficit Ring Tennis and needed to Complex. win the final Tennessee (21-4) three matches to won the doubles win. point easily enough, Williams with top-ranked senmade the score iors Boris Conkic 3-2 with his 7-6 and John-Patrick (3), 6-3 victory Smith defeating over Bangoura, Alexandre Lacroix l e a v i n g and Sekou Bangoura Sandgren and Jr. 8-2. Williams and senior Matteo fellow sophomore Fago as the last Tennys Sandgren two Vols still clinched the point playing. with an 8-5 victory Fago rallied to George Richardson • The Daily Beacon over Billy take the second Federhofer and David Kortemeier and Katy Wolfe Zahn pose in set 6-3 against Nassim Slilam. a promotional shot for “The Music Man,” which Federhofer but The Vols had debuted last week at the Clarence Brown was broken servswept Florida 7-0 in Theatre. The show is scheduled to run through ing at 2-2 in the Knoxville two Sunday, May 15. final set and weeks ago, but could never every singles recover. Federhofer won 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 to clinch matchup was different Saturday. When singles the match. started, the pieces started falling quickly in "Our guys didn’t give themselves a chance.

Florida’s favor, as the Gators took four of six first We lost four first sets. We’ve got to learn. For us sets with the home crowd at their backs. to win a national championship — which is our "Florida came out in singles and they competgoal and what our team is capable of doing — ed, and it was a real match," Tennessee head we have to be able to handle these situations.” coach Sam Winterbotham said. "We’re in